What Is Holistic Stress Management
Feeling stressed is a response, to life’s ups and downs. Excessive stress can make us feel drained and worn out. Luckily there are various holistic stress management techniques to find your inner peace and boost well-being.
For centuries, people have turned to natural healing energy practices like meditation, breathwork, and the use of healing crystals (just to mention a few) to restore balance and cultivate a sense of inner peace.
These practices focus more on the interconnected aspects of our mind, body and spirit offering a gentle framework, for navigating life’s obstacles.
By nurturing these interconnected aspects of ourselves, we approach our challenges with a sense of mindfulness and self-care. Ultimately regaining connection with our serenity and calm within.
A Holistic Approach to Identifying Stress
Every person experiences stress differently.
However, the stress reactions on the body function involve various physical , emotional, and behavioral symptoms.
Sometimes the stress effects can manifest itself in unusual physical symptoms, which is your body’s way of telling you that something is wrong and can also have after effects from those stressful experiences.
Research shows that the impact of stress can make you feel physically sick.
A stressful event often involves various psychological and behavioral signs, impairing our ability to cope and interfering with daily life, like emotional health and cause harm to overall well-being.
Below we discuss some of the most common emotional and behavioral signs which could show when a person is stressed out.
In times of stressful life events or constant levels of stress over a prolonged period we may experience any of these signs or a combination.
We may feel as if we are not in control of life and may have a constant feeling of being overwhelmed with emotional stress.
In other words, excessive levels of stress can lead to burnout, which is can show a state of complete exhaustion and fatigue over a period of time.
Emotional burnout can cause you to feel drained most of the time and can last for a longer period of time, reducing your motivation and productivity, affecting your relationships, and impairing your overall health.
On top of the symptoms caused by long-term stress, burnout can trigger additional health problems.
Some of the symptoms of stress can bring on are anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, mood disorders, or eating disorders.
Too much stress levels can increase blood pressure, heart rate, headaches, and migraines, or lead to stress-related obesity.
Stress-provoked, emotional burnout may cause the feeling of hopeless, helpless, and completely out of energy.
Some Holistic Stress Management Techniques
Effective stress management skills can boost resilience, thus helping you manage pressures in your day-to-day life.
Resilience means being able to carry on under pressure and quickly bounce back from difficulties.
Some people are more resilient than others.
However, resilience is something you can practice, learn and develop as your long term management strategy.
Building a resilient mindset can help you better manage your personal and professional life and manifest the life you want to live to be more happy and successful.
Stress management techniques can help you attract more positive energy, be more productive, feel happier, and enjoy a balanced life.
It can prevent certain types of stress from compromising your health, relationships, and quality of life.
Consider the following 3 holistic stress management strategies to help alleviate some of that stress and raise resilience.
1. Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness is the ability to focus and be fully present in the current moment.
It allows you to observe your thoughts and feelings without interpreting or self-judging them.
It also helps with breathing techniques to manage a more relaxed state of mind.
Many studies have shown that mindfulness can be a great tool to relieve stress-related symptoms and promote relaxation.
Mindfulness can help you become aware of your self-critical thoughts that can provoke symptoms of psychological stress.
It can improve your mood, raise resilience and enhance your focus.
Research shows that regular mindfulness practice can reduce activity in part the amygdala, decreasing your stress response.
2. Meditation With Calming Crystals
A simple yet effective holistic stress management technique can be creating a sacred space with the vibrant colors and unique shapes of Mother Earth’s stones and minerals.
The touch and feel of these calming crystals during meditation can help us connect more deeply with Earth’s beauty, fostering peace and relaxation as we feel a part of her natural energy and flow.
Some cultures use crystals in feng shui, for helping with the flow of chi (life force energy) within their personal environment.
Here are some of the most used crystals for meditation practices to metaphysically relieve stress:
Calming purple shades of amethyst are believed to have intense metaphysical healing and protective properties.
Known as “the all-purpose stone,” amethyst attracts positive vibrations, helps calm the mind, and silence our inner critic in everyday life.
Having a clear mind can contribute to a greater sense of empowerment in handling life’s challenges.
A crystal that is used metaphysically to protect from negative energy, increases creativity, and activates intuition.
It encourages self-esteem, confidence, boosts enthusiasm and a positive attitude in everyday life experiences, also known to be used to attract wealth and abundance.
This crystal is believed to help relieve tension, restore inner peace, and help with relaxation.
Beautiful lilac hues of Lepidolite help balance the third eye chakra, raising awareness of stress triggers.
Meditation with Lepidolite is to metaphysically soothe oneself, promoting relaxation when experiencing stress.
Some people hold Lepidolite in their hands when feeling overwhelmed by fear and worry, using the stone as a focus during deep breathing for a few minutes.
In moments of stillness and deep breathing, holding a healing crystal can help bring a sense of calm and relaxation for some.
Metaphysically moonstone is known for “new beginnings” that can foster inner strength, dispel feelings of stress, worry, and fear, and help stabilize emotions.
Rose Quartz’s calming pink hues encourage self-compassion, love, and creativity.
This beautiful crystal can be a soothing stone, when feeling anxious, stressed, or pressured. Especially when you forget about your own self-care.
It is believed to calm and heal metaphysically, any emotional symptoms of the heart through its higher vibrations. Also used to magnetize love, self-love, and self-compassion.
Meditating with rose quartz is used for boosting calming effects, enhancing self-love helping to increase self-confidence during stressful situations.
It is also used to open oneself up to abundance through their own creativity.
3. Deep-Breathing Exercise
While mindfulness exercises are most commonly practiced through meditation, another mindful way to reduce stress is conscious breathing.
Deep breathing is one of the simplest but most effective strategies to reduce stress.
Mindful breathing techniques such as progressive relaxation, abdominal breathing, and guided visualization can help you relax and relieve tension.
When you breathe deeply, you send signals to your brain and body to relax and calm down, alleviating some of the negative impact that can linger on within the nervous system.
Learning how to manage your breathing can help relieve stress symptoms and you can feel more composed in stress-provoking situations.
Yoga has proven to be effective in promoting the synchronicity of mind and body. It’s normally used for mental clarity, help build physical and psychological strength, boosting awareness, fostering harmony.
Yoga can also be a powerful tool to overcome everyday stress, raise resilience, and attract abundance into your life by shifting your energy to a higher vibrational level.
When combined with mindfulness meditation, yoga can help develop intuition and enhance creativity.
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